St. Landry democrat., 1887-10-22

n convention LAS Teen Aelu III i'eHIttt, l.,
to derlde upon ways and means Of obtaining
a arhannel way from the lower end of Lake
Michigan to the Mississippi river of sufficient
capacity to accommodate larger sized Mssis-
slppl-rlver boats, so that the products of the
country may be carried from the lake to the
gulf without breaking bulk also, to enable
vessels Of war to pass from the Gulf of Mexico
INTO the defeDseless waters of the Northern
lakes
The New York State board of arbitration
has heard statements from the locked-out
brass workers and their employers The
trouble is about the Saturday half-holiday.
The board suggested two things One was
that committee from both the workmen's s
ASSOCIATION and the employers association
should meet in conference as soon as posi-
bic and try and come to settlement The
other was that both parties should leave the
whole matter to the board of arbitration
thelr decision to be final, the employers in
the meantime to open their shops, observing
the Saturday half-holiday. The matter has
peen postponed to give both sides a chance
to act on the suggestions.
Typographical Union No. made demands
IN the various printing offices in New York,
recently, that on and attera certain date only
union men should be employed in these
Offices, and that fOrty-three cents per 1000
ems should be the wages paid, and only one
apprentice be kept in an office to every ten
men. About 500 men quit work when their
demands were refused. The whole trouble
| IS IN reference to the demand to make the
offices strictly union offices The Master
| prirfprS' ~, ~
and resolved that the demand to discharge
| all non-uniOn men could not be granted.
| This decision involves the throwing of g. 500
composltOrs out of work. The newspaper
offices have all acceded to the demands of
| the compostors except the Catholic Meas and
the thurchman. The State board of arbitra-
ton held an investigation.
The Boston Chamber Of Commerce has
Endorsed the memorial address to Presi-
| dent Cleveland by the New York Maritime
Exchange, and urges that invitations be
extended by the United States to all mari
time nations to send delegates to an inter
national conference to the END that measures
may be adopted that will insure greater
precautions against disasters at sea. and that
other topics Of international importance
may be submitted to the deliberation of a
body which shall be competent to effect
practical reforms
The Association Of North American Rail
road Superintendents has begun its annual
meeting in New York. The committee on
machinery presented a report recommending
uniformity of general railroad usages the
adoption Of uniform train rules and train
orders the adoption Of standard passen-
ger-car coupler and certain patent axes,
journal boxes, etc The report was adopted,
with the exception of the section relating
to the car coupler. 1t was also decided that
frogs should be constructed of rails of the
same pattern as the tracks on which they are
used, and that spring rail frogs be used
always on main tracks.
The projectors of the Emery Coal and Rail-
road Company, residents of Chattanooga
have for several years been buying mineral
and coal lands in Morgan, Scott, Cumberland
and Hamilton counties, Tenn. They have
just closed a purchase of 100000 acres of
land, besides $150o00 worth Of property in
Chattanooga, and have applied for a charter
with capital of 81, 100000.
A syndicate of Springfield, O., and Eastern
capitalists has purchased $4,000 acres of coal
land in Breathitt county, Ky, and will, it is
stated, at once open the mines and build
railroads through the county. The COM
pany has organized with $1,000, coo capital
AS result of negotiations with the Com
mercial Travellers Protective Association, |
the Minnesota and Northwestern railway |
has given notice of withdrawal from the |
Western State Passenger Association and |
has consented to place on sale 2,O00-mile
tickets at two cents per mile.
All the Knights of Labor assemblies of
Eermillion county, H., have adopted reso-
lutions denouncing the Chicago Anarchists,
lndOrsing the action of the courts in their
cases and prohibiting members from signing
petitions in favor Of the Anarchists.
Messrs. Angel and Putnam, of the fish
cries commission, have been in Washington
and had conference with Secretary Bavard
respecting the course of the American mem
bers of the joint commission. 1t was under
stood that it was decided that under no cir
cumstances would the American members
OF the commission consent to any settlement
OF the controversy which contemplates the
admission of Canadian fish free of duty
After the conference Messrs. Putnam and
Angel left for their homes. They are not
expected to return until the arrival of the
British commissioners.
Respecting the eviction of settlers by a
British syndicate from the unearned land
grants of the St. Paul and Sioux City rail
'oad, a dispatch from Des Moines, Ia, SAYS:
The general government has by correspond
ence, as well as by decisions of the courts
given the settlers encouragement to take up
hese lands, though the titles were in dis
oute. The State of Iowa has no right to in
erfere, save as it can assist to recover {
through the Federal courts the lands
which the railroads did not earn, /
nd give them to settlers who have gone t
lpon them in good faith, trusting to the a
promises of the government. This Attorney q
ieneral Baker, of Iowa, offered to do, and e
ried to have Attorney General Garland, at S
Washington, stop these proceedings in the v
tate courts long enough for the government
D determine ifit had not an interest in them
his however, President Cleveland's admin q
'tration has refused to do. As a result the
vlctlons have gone on, accompanied by "
Genes of hardship. terror and brutality. v
An eighteen-months-old child has died of 1e